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Thanks, the data was available, just in the wrong place.

My backup having finished, I did a restore.  So far so good, the only spurious ‘system’ folder is now ‘My Pictures’, which fortunately doesn’t have my important imagery as I kept that elsewhere.  Of course it’s asking me to download the update yet again.

Strangely enough my W10 Home laptop (this one) is not updating beyond W10 1803. I thought I’d try to update it to check the before and after, as it’s less populated – but it didn’t happen.

Shopping around now for Linux based kit (it’s rarer than before – why?)  Having been Windows since 3.1 this is the limit for me.  MS – touch my files and data at your peril!

I omitted to mention above that my music files had been copied to OneDrive without my permission – one synch would have put the lot up there (and what else?)

For those who have updated I suggest you switch on system and hidden files in your File manager view – then you’ll see what’s been going on.  It’s a little more than sinister imho.